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Immigration (Reasons for immigrating. (They had no choices ,
they moved…

Immigration

Reasons for immigrating.

They had no choices

they moved in to have more opportunities

For a better life

Irish potato farms

1 wave

German

The Germans are germanic,peolpe ,originally part of the holy roman Empire.

Irish

potato farmine

Cheap land

Roman catholics

Nativists

Nativists argued that the new immigrants would not assimilate because their language is di

Know nothings

2st wave ,

From 1820 to 1890 was a period in which America went from being primarily a rural and agricultural society to the beginnings of an industrial society. It was during this second wave that many Irish and Norwegians emigrated.

Immigration: meaning to arrive at a foreign country with the intention of establishing in it, either permanently or temporarily.